Self-hosted operations control plane

One calm command center for your operational world.

Bring Docker Swarm operations, monitoring, IP resources, privileged access, work, and data tooling into one modular portal your team can run and control.

Self-hosted Role-aware Modular Private AI support
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Why KNetraHub

Less tool switching. More operational clarity.

KNetraHub is designed for teams that have outgrown scattered commands and disconnected tools, but still want the ownership and flexibility of self-hosted infrastructure.

See the operation as one system

Connect deployment state, health signals, infrastructure inventory, access workflows, and team activity in one role-aware portal.

Turn routine work into fast decisions

Move from alert to context and from context to a safe action without switching between terminals, spreadsheets, and disconnected dashboards.

Keep ownership close

Run the platform in your own Docker Swarm, choose local accounts or enterprise identity, and keep operational control with your team.

Start focused, expand deliberately

Enable only the apps you need today, then add monitoring, IP management, privileged access, work, or database tooling as needs grow.

KNetraHub in one minute

A practical path from fragmented operations to one governed workspace.
Best fit
Teams operating Docker Swarm and adjacent infrastructure
Immediate win
One searchable place to understand and operate the environment
First deployment
Generate a ready-to-run bundle with Start Initializr
Built-in confidence
Roles, alerts, audit trails, version history, and private AI support

Product tour

See every module in action

98 screens captured from a demo instance seeded with fictional data: every module's dashboard and its key feature screens. Open a card to browse them full-size — ← → move between screens, click zooms, F goes fullscreen.

KNetraHub portal Portal

Sign-in, launcher, administration and the documentation

  • One sign-in: local accounts, LDAP / Active Directory, OIDC
  • Per-app access tiers from viewer to administrator
  • Documentation with a smart search over every guide

Docker

Docker Swarm management

  • Stacks & GitLab versioning
  • Services, tasks & nodes
  • Networks, volumes, secrets, configs
/docker

Monitoring

Full-stack network monitoring

  • Unified devices, ports & sensors
  • Modular discovery & polling
  • Alerting, traps, syslog & coverage
/monitoring

Work

ClickUp-style work management

  • Spaces, folders & lists
  • Tasks, views & custom fields
  • Docs, comments & time tracking
/work

Privileged Access

Enterprise privileged-access management

  • Encrypted vault & safes
  • Requests, approvals & sessions
  • JIT, break-glass & audit chain
/pam

IP Management

phpIPAM-style address management

  • Sections, subnets, VLANs & VRFs
  • Address inventory & scans
  • Racks, circuits, requests & vault
/ipmgt

Database Manager

CloudBeaver-style database workbench

  • Connections, ACLs & policies
  • SQL editor & navigator
  • Query Manager, sessions & audit
/dbmanager

CMDB

Configuration management database

  • CI types & typed attributes
  • Relationships & history
  • Published to the platform catalog
/cmdb

Service Desk

Incidents, requests, problems and changes

  • Four ticket kinds & state machines
  • SLA policies, clocks & breaches
  • Linked to the platform catalog
/itsm

Automation

Workflows and runbooks

  • Module API steps with retries & rollback
  • Manual steps, approvals & schedules
  • Run history with a redacted step log
/automation

Network Configuration

Configuration backups for network devices

  • Scheduled SSH backups with pinned host keys
  • Baselines, drift & compliance policies
  • Changes & restores with four-eyes approval
/netconfig

Certificates

Certificate inventory, expiry and an internal CA

  • TLS scans, network discovery & keystores
  • Deployments, renewals & expiry notices
  • An internal CA: four-eyes issuance & CRLs
/pki

Backup & DR

Recovery objectives and the evidence that they are met

  • Policies with RPO, RTO, copies & restore tests
  • Evidence from people, scripts & runbooks
  • Dependency gaps & restore order from the CMDB
/recovery

Kubernetes

Every cluster, what runs on it and what is not well

  • Clusters from a kubeconfig, read in the browser
  • Workloads, pods, nodes & network with their health
  • Pod logs read & followed, every read audited
/kubernetes

Vulnerabilities

What your software is made of, and which advisories affect it

  • SBOMs & package lists, from people or pipelines
  • OSV feeds for 16 ecosystems, downloaded or uploaded
  • Each ecosystem’s own version order
/vulnerability

Log Analytics

Every log line in one place, searched in seconds

  • Syslog over UDP, TCP & TLS; HTTP with per-source keys
  • RFC 5424/3164, JSON, CEF, logfmt & dissect patterns
  • Cards & secrets masked before anything is kept
/logs

Proxy Manager

Every reverse proxy on the swarm, one configuration, deployed as revisions

  • nginx, Caddy, Traefik & HAProxy behind one canonical configuration
  • A wizard that checks nodes, networks & ports against the swarm
  • Guided editor & Expert editor with completion and lint per engine
/proxy

Netra AI support

Private, grounded help on every page

Netra answers KNetraHub questions from the documentation — through an admin-bound central AI connection (Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic) or, as the fallback, an on-device WebGPU / WebAssembly model that never leaves the browser.

Core capabilities

What KNetraHub does

Stack Management

Deploy Docker Swarm stacks from compose files with full status tracking. One-click rollback with GitLab version history.

Service Control

Scale replicas, redeploy tasks, and update images across your swarm without touching the command line.

Live Monitoring

Real-time SSE event stream — swarm health at a glance: nodes, services, tasks, and cluster capacity. Metrics history is charted on node and service pages.

Alerts

Notify Telegram, Teams, or any webhook on deploy failures, usage thresholds, node-down, degraded replicas, or disk pressure — with customizable message templates.

Access Control

Tiered access per app (viewer, operator, manager, admin) with local accounts, LDAP / Active Directory, and OIDC SSO. Stored credentials are encrypted at rest.

Infrastructure

Manage networks, volumes, secrets, configs, and private registry credentials from one place.

Privileged Access

Enterprise PAM: an envelope-encrypted credential vault with online key rotation, access requests with multi-level approvals, brokered recorded sessions, just-in-time and break-glass access, and a tamper-evident audit chain.

Work Management

Clean-room ClickUp-equivalent: spaces, folders and lists; tasks with subtasks, dependencies and custom fields; List/Board/Table views; Docs, threaded comments, and time tracking.

Database Manager

Browser SQL workbench for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, and Redis: governed connections with encrypted credentials, a policy-enforced editor, org-wide query oversight, and a hash-chained audit trail.

REST API

Use scoped API tokens and the interactive Swagger explorer to connect approved automation and operational integrations.

Apps

Modules in this portal

KNetraHub bundles several apps behind one portal. Each app has its own User Manual, Configuration, and API session below; portal-wide topics (authentication, users, appearance, alert delivery) live in the General sessions.

Docker

Docker Swarm management

Deploy and version compose stacks, scale and redeploy services, manage nodes, tasks, networks, volumes, secrets, configs, and private registries with live SSE monitoring.

  • Stacks & GitLab versioning
  • Services, tasks & nodes
  • Networks, volumes, secrets, configs

Monitoring

Full-stack network monitoring

SNMP/ICMP discovery and polling of routers, switches, firewalls, servers, printers, UPSes and more — one unified device model with ports, health sensors, alert rules, traps, syslog, and data-collection auditing.

  • Unified devices, ports & sensors
  • Modular discovery & polling
  • Alerting, traps, syslog & coverage

Work

ClickUp-style work management

Organise work in Spaces → Folders → Lists with object-level sharing; run tasks with subtasks, multi-assignees, dependencies, checklists and custom fields across List, Board and Table views; write Docs, comment in threads, and track time.

  • Spaces, folders & lists
  • Tasks, views & custom fields
  • Docs, comments & time tracking

Privileged Access

Enterprise privileged-access management

A cryptographic credential vault (envelope encryption, online key rotation) with safes, privileged-account onboarding and discovery, automated change/verify/reconcile, access requests with approvals, brokered recorded sessions, just-in-time and break-glass access, and a tamper-evident audit chain.

  • Encrypted vault & safes
  • Requests, approvals & sessions
  • JIT, break-glass & audit chain

IP Management

phpIPAM-style address management

Organise sections, subnets, VLANs and VRFs; inventory addresses with a visual grid; track racks, circuits, NAT and customers; and keep utilisation accurate with scheduled scans, requests, and import/export.

  • Sections, subnets, VLANs & VRFs
  • Address inventory & scans
  • Racks, circuits, requests & vault

Database Manager

CloudBeaver-style database workbench

Query PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB and Redis targets from the browser: governed connections with envelope-encrypted credentials, a policy-enforced SQL editor with metadata navigation, org-wide query oversight, target session management, and a verifiable audit chain.

  • Connections, ACLs & policies
  • SQL editor & navigator
  • Query Manager, sessions & audit

CMDB

Configuration management database

Record what the platform operates as configuration items of administrator-defined types with typed attribute fields, relate them with ten relationship kinds, and keep a per-item change history with optimistic concurrency. Every item is published to the platform catalog, so global search, catalog links and the other modules see it.

  • CI types & typed attributes
  • Relationships & history
  • Published to the platform catalog

Service Desk

Incidents, requests, problems and changes

Run the desk on tickets of four kinds with their own state machines, impact × urgency priority, SLA policies whose clocks pause on hold and flag breaches, comments and work logs, a per-ticket history, and links to anything the platform catalogs — with the people a ticket concerns notified through the portal bell.

  • Four ticket kinds & state machines
  • SLA policies, clocks & breaches
  • Linked to the platform catalog

Automation

Workflows and runbooks

Chain calls to the platform’s module APIs into workflows and runbooks that run as a bound API token — with conditions, retries, compensating rollback, delays, manual steps, approvals and schedules — and keep every run’s step log. A workflow can do exactly what its token can, and never carries a secret.

  • Module API steps with retries & rollback
  • Manual steps, approvals & schedules
  • Run history with a redacted step log

Network Configuration

Configuration backups for network devices

Back up the configuration of routers, switches and firewalls over SSH on a schedule or on request, with the device’s host key pinned and its credential taken from the module vault or Privileged Access. Every version is sealed, unchanged backups are recognized, any two versions can be compared, and secrets are masked in everything a person reads. An approved baseline per device shows drift on every backup, and compliance policies check every configuration.

  • Scheduled SSH backups with pinned host keys
  • Baselines, drift & compliance policies
  • Changes & restores with four-eyes approval

Certificates

Certificate inventory, expiry and an internal CA

Keep every certificate the organisation depends on in one inventory: read from the TLS endpoints that present them (directly or after SMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP or PostgreSQL STARTTLS), found by network discovery, held by the keystores you read (PKCS#12, JKS, JCEKS, PEM — opened in your browser, so neither the file nor its password leaves it), imported, or issued by an internal authority held here. See each certificate’s issuer chain, where it is deployed and was, which certificate replaced it, who owns it and what is weak about it — and hear about it before it expires. Internal authorities issue from CSRs a second person approves, and revoke with signed CRLs; no private key of anyone’s is ever taken, and the authorities’ own keys are sealed by the module vault.

  • TLS scans, network discovery & keystores
  • Deployments, renewals & expiry notices
  • An internal CA: four-eyes issuance & CRLs

Backup & DR

Recovery objectives and the evidence that they are met

Set protection policies — the RPO, the RTO, how often an offsite and an immutable or offline copy must exist, how often a restore must be proven — and put the items in the CMDB under them. Backup jobs, people and Automation runbooks report each backup run and restore test; every item then reads as protected, at risk, breached or awaiting its first evidence, with the reason and a notice when it is breached or its restore test is overdue. What each item depends on in the CMDB graph shows the gaps — a dependency nobody protects, one slower to restore than what needs it — and the order to restore in. DR plans say how each service is brought back; a second person approves each version, and a plan is reviewed on a cadence and flagged when what the service depends on changes. Exercises rehearse the plans as Service Desk changes run by Automation runbooks, and leave their results as evidence. Evidence reports freeze a period and a scope as a PDF and CSV files, each kept with its SHA-256 for an auditor to check. KNetraHub does not connect to backup products: the evidence is reported, and labelled with who reported it.

  • Policies with RPO, RTO, copies & restore tests
  • Evidence from people, scripts & runbooks
  • Dependency gaps & restore order from the CMDB
  • DR plans approved by a second person
  • Exercises as Service Desk changes & runbooks
  • Evidence reports with checksums

Kubernetes

Every cluster, what runs on it and what is not well

Register the Kubernetes clusters you run — from a kubeconfig read in your browser, or with a service account token or a client certificate — and KNetraHub keeps an inventory of each: its nodes, namespaces, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, CronJobs, Jobs, pods, services, ingresses and volume claims, with each one’s health and why (a crash-looping container, a rollout stalled past its deadline, a node not ready or under pressure, a service with no ready endpoint), and the warning events of the last days. The credential is sealed by the module vault and never shown again; what it may read — and what it could change, which KNetraHub does only by an operation someone else approved — is checked and shown. Workloads, nodes, namespaces, services and ingresses are published to the platform catalog, so the CMDB imports them and a Service Desk ticket or a Backup & DR policy can name them. Operators read a pod’s log or follow it as it is written — each read audited, nothing kept —; every page shows an object’s events of every type, read live, and usage now from metrics-server; Helm releases show with their chart, version and health, from their resources’ labels and, where an administrator switches it on, Helm’s storage. Where the deployment and an administrator allow it, an operator asks to scale, restart or roll back a workload, delete a pod, cordon a node or suspend a cron job: the cluster checks it as a dry run, someone else approves it with their security password, and it is made on that object only.

  • Clusters from a kubeconfig, read in the browser
  • Workloads, pods, nodes & network with their health
  • Pod logs read & followed, every read audited
  • Helm releases, live events & usage now
  • Warnings, notices & catalog entries for the CMDB
  • Read-only: never exec, never a Secret’s data

Vulnerabilities

What your software is made of, and which advisories affect it

Send what an image, a host or an application is made of — an SBOM as syft, Trivy or cdxgen write it (CycloneDX or SPDX), or a host’s package list from dpkg, rpm or apk — from the page or from a pipeline with an API token, and KNetraHub matches every component against the security advisories of the ecosystems you keep: OSV’s feeds for Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Wolfi, Chainguard, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux, and for npm, PyPI, Maven, Go, crates.io, NuGet, RubyGems, Hex and Pub, downloaded daily from OSV or a mirror of it, or uploaded where nothing is downloaded. Each ecosystem’s versions are ordered as its own tools order them (dpkg, apk, rpm, SemVer, PEP 440, Maven, NuGet, RubyGems), an operating-system package is matched as its source package and only for the release it came from, and each finding says the version that fixes it. Findings open when an inventory or a feed brings them and are fixed — with the reason — when an upgrade leaves the range, the package goes or the advisory is withdrawn; the owner hears of new critical and high findings. Nothing is scanned, pulled or patched: the module reads what it is sent.

  • SBOMs & package lists, from people or pipelines
  • OSV feeds for 16 ecosystems, downloaded or uploaded
  • Each ecosystem’s own version order
  • Findings with the version that fixes them
  • Where a package is used, at which version
  • Notices for new critical & high findings

Log Analytics

Every log line in one place, searched in seconds

Point your devices’ syslog at KNetraHub — UDP, TCP (newline or octet-counted framing) or TLS — or have a shipper post lines over HTTP with a key of its own: Fluent Bit, Vector, Logstash, rsyslog, anything that sends NDJSON, a JSON array or plain lines. Each source says whose lines it takes (address ranges, host names), how they are read (RFC 5424 and 3164 as devices really send them, JSON, CEF, key=value pairs, or a dissect pattern of your own), how long they are kept (a retention class) and who may read them. Card numbers and secrets are masked before anything is kept. Search by words, phrases and fields, count them over time and by value, open a line with the lines around it, follow a query live and export what it matches — every search recorded in a search log. Keep a search under a name, and put the counts you watch on dashboards — lines over time, top values, numbers, the newest lines —, yours or shared, each read over the sources its reader may read; counts over days come from counts kept beside the lines, the same numbers read faster. Open a device’s, a node’s or an item’s lines from its own page, and let correlation rules tell you when lines of different searches belong together — failed logins then a success from one address — within a window. Lines live in the module’s own PostgreSQL database, in daily partitions each class drops when its days are past.

  • Syslog over UDP, TCP & TLS; HTTP with per-source keys
  • RFC 5424/3164, JSON, CEF, logfmt & dissect patterns
  • Cards & secrets masked before anything is kept
  • Words, phrases & fields; histograms & top values
  • Saved searches & dashboards, yours or shared
  • A resource’s lines from its page; correlation rules
  • Live tail, context & export — every search logged
  • Retention classes, a source readable by the tier it names

Proxy Manager

Every reverse proxy on the swarm, one configuration, deployed as revisions

Run nginx, Caddy, Traefik or HAProxy tenants on your Docker Swarm from one place — internal, external or in the DMZ, each with its own engine, routes, upstreams, TLS, networks, resources and placement. Describe a tenant once in the guided editor (listeners, TLS, routes with WebSockets, SSE, gRPC, rate limits, basic authentication, caching, headers and allow lists; upstreams with balancing, health checks and stickiness; compression, security headers, timeouts) and the engine adapter renders the engine’s own file; or take the Expert editor with the engine’s completion and lint. Every change is an immutable revision with its rendered files and diff; a deployment runs preflight against the swarm (eligible nodes, networks, port conflicts, the orchestrator’s dry run), applies only the tenant’s service as content-addressed secrets through the Docker module, waits for the tasks to run and answer their healthcheck, and rolls back on its own when they do not. External, DMZ and restricted tenants need a second person’s approval with the security password. Health and drift are checked on a schedule, traffic is counted from the access logs, certificates — yours, self-signed, or issued by a Certificates-module authority for a key that never leaves the module — ring the bell before they lapse, and the Docker module refuses to touch what the Proxy Manager owns.

  • nginx, Caddy, Traefik & HAProxy behind one canonical configuration
  • A wizard that checks nodes, networks & ports against the swarm
  • Guided editor & Expert editor with completion and lint per engine
  • Immutable revisions, file diffs, dry runs & selective service updates
  • Approvals for external, DMZ & restricted tenants; step-up auth
  • Health, drift & automatic rollback; traffic from the access logs
  • Certificates: yours, self-signed, or from the Certificates module
  • Shared or dedicated stacks; the Docker module keeps hands off

Access & permissions

Know what each role can do

Assign the narrowest tier each person needs. Tiers apply per app — the same person can be an operator in Docker and a viewer in PAM — and are refined from Admin → Apps & Access.

Viewer
  • Dashboard & metrics
  • Stacks (read-only)
  • Services & tasks
  • Nodes
  • Networks, volumes, secrets, configs
Operator
  • All Viewer access
  • Deploy & update stacks
  • Scale & redeploy services
  • Update service images
  • Manage secrets & configs
Manager
  • All Operator access
  • Approvals & request reviews
  • Sharing & member management
  • Session monitoring (PAM)
  • Module activity & audit views
Admin
  • All Operator access
  • Manage users & roles
  • Configure LDAP & OIDC
  • Registry credentials
  • Full audit log

Getting started

Deploy with Start Initializr

Recommended: generate a ready-to-run Docker Compose bundle

Choose modules, replicas, ports, image registry, storage layout, and secrets. The knetra command installs Docker if the host lacks it, validates the manager, creates required Docker secrets, and deploys every selected stack in order — then keeps operating it with start, stop, restart, redeploy, logs and config.

1Prepare Docker Swarm
docker info --format '{{.Swarm.ControlAvailable}}'
# If this is a new single-node swarm:
docker swarm init
2Open Start Initializr
Documentation → Start Initializr
3Choose your deployment
Pick an architecture: Monolith or Microservice
Select modules · replicas
Access & domain: direct port, your reverse proxy, or the bundled proxy (Caddy, nginx or Traefik) + TLS
Choose one stack or separate stacks
Confirm the image registry and tag
4Install the knetra command
curl -fsSL https://sengphirum.github.io/KNetraHub/install.sh | bash
# One command, the same for everyone. Adds tab completion.
# Later: knetra update, or knetra uninstall
5Set up and deploy
knetra setup           # paste the token from Start Initializr
#   or: knetra setup --token-file token.txt
cd knetrahub
knetra install --swarm-init   # only on a host without Docker
knetra plan            # every service as Docker will resolve it
knetra start
6Verify and sign in
docker stack services knetrahub
# Open http://<manager-node>:3000 — or the public URL you configured
# (knetra start prints it); the bundled proxy needs its DNS record first
# Complete first-run setup and change the admin password

Docker Swarm Compose example

knetra start creates the required secrets before running commands like these. Use it for the first deployment; run the commands directly only after the secrets already exist.

docker stack deploy --with-registry-auth -c docker-compose.yml knetrahub
docker stack services knetrahub

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